| German | English |
| Abteilung Recht | Legal Division |
| Internationales Recht | international law The system of law regulating the interrelationship of sovereign states and their rights and duties with regard to one another |
| Ländliches Recht | rural law A binding rule or body of rules prescribed by a government pertaining to matters of importance to residents of sparsely populated regions, especially agricultural and other economic issues |
| Ländliches Recht | rural law |
| Recht auf eine lebensmoegliche Umwelt | amenity right |
| Recht des Einzelnen | rights of the individual Just claims, legal guarantees or moral principles accorded to each and every member of a group or state, including the freedom to do certain things and the freedom from certain intrusions imposed by the collective body |
| Rechte der zukünftigen Generationen | rights of future generations The moral, legal or ethical claims of posterity on present people, based on the recognition that the young and unborn are vulnerable to contemporary decision-making, especially decisions having long-term effect on the societies and environment they inherit |
| Rechte der zukünftigen Generationen | rights of future generations |
| wirtschaftliche Rechte | economic rights The just claims and legal guarantees to access, participate in and profit from the production, distribution and use of property, intellectual property, income and wealth |
| Öffentliches Recht | public law A general classification of law, consisting generally of constitutional, administrative, criminal and international law, concerned with the organization of the state, the relations between the state and the people who compose it, the responsibilities of public officers to the state, to each other, and to private persons, and the relations of states to one other. The branch or department of law which is concerned with the state in its political or sovereign capacity, including constitutional and administrative law, and with the definition, regulation, and enforcement of rights in cases where the state is regarded as the subject of the right or object of the duty, - including criminal law and criminal procedure, - and the law of the state, considered in its quasi private personality, i.e., as capable of holding or exercising rights, or acquiring and dealing with property, in the character of an individual |
